Twice

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” —Anaïs Nin

August 6, 2020

Terrible odds

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.” ―Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

September 20, 2019

Establish atmosphere

“There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.” —Fred Rogers, You Are Special

July 24, 2019

Open hearts

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” —Pema Chodron

June 20, 2019

Example

“The master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will.” —Tao Te Ching

May 28, 2019

Approaching the end

“As one approaches the end, one begins to see life as it truly is.” —Hercule Poirot

April 28, 2019

Change the ending

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. —C.S. Lewis

October 21, 2018

Choices

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. —Fred Rogers

September 21, 2018

Present

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. —Jim Carrey

September 13, 2018

Migrated to GitLab

Even though the new workflow was working well, I decided to move the repository for Indigo Spot to GitLab from GitHub. Why? Because GitLab provides unlimited private repositories free of charge, so rather than pay $7 USD per month for private repositories, I decided to move to the service that provides that free of charge for developers. I am not sure how sustainable GitLab’s business model is at the moment, but I am going to see how things pan out....

June 7, 2018 · Ian W. Parker